This evening the Debian / Jessie repositories pushed through a major update, which turned my Debian 8.10 system into a Debian 8.11 system. Additionally, this included an update to the proprietary, legacy nVidia graphics driver, version 304.x , which is pretty much the only device-driver left, which will work with an old on-board graphics chip, which was the:

GeForce 6150SE nForce 430/integrated/SSE2

Hence, if after the update, the X-server had not restarted, I would pretty much have been finished with this computer!

Luckily, the graphics-driver update seemed to take well, and the whole procedure seemed to go smoothly.

Due to the reboot which was required, my site and blog were off-line, from about 20h05 until about 20h10. Because this was only for 5 minutes, I’m sure this did not inconvenience my readers much.